The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1887-04-08
TERRITORIAL PLUMBER

above Clifton.
DR.. n. Booth has taken charge 81
his office e Geputy United states reye-
nue. collector.
The little daughter Of DR. G.. ~.
Wood. n the Mimbres. recently died
Of scarlet fever.
An employee ~ T.. Il. Davis. near
Las Cruces. recently lasaoed wild cat
that measured four and a half feet.
Hon. II. Ferguson has been pre-
seuted with an elegant gold headed
cane by his appreciatiye Socorro
friends.
Thomas McCulloch and Miss Eta
Fulrher. OF Pennington. san Juan
county, were recently married on
horse back.
Antonio Joseph states that Presi
dent Cleveland and Mayor Hewitt. of
New York, are under engagement 10
visit Oio calietie this summer.
The owners Of the beautiful crystal
cavern in the Bennett mine in Dona
Ana county have been obliged 90 locs
il up 90 prevent vandal, from destroy
ing as beauty
The san Filipc hotel. sold hy special
master IN chancery. has been hid in by
eastern tond holders at $4,000; and
'he siXty-dve outlying lots by the same
parties 1t 1900.
a pure spring Of water has been
discovered in The ma'pgi region be
tween Socorro ana White Oaks and ef-
forts gre being made to establish
stage lin 10y that route.
Last week. District Attorney Smith
and Lawyer Warren were fined five
dollars fof talking ~ the same time Ia
court. al Cruces, they lot needing The
judges command for silence.
Several Of the leading men OF Sierra
county viii tender a bauoaet 10 Hon
Edward F,a', as marx q recognition
Of hls valuable services rendered dur
ing the last term Of the legislature.
Socorro's artesan well: H. Cocoon
at Mountain station las reached COO
feet in ltIs w'll and has let u further
contract. Nlr. GoCion proposes to SINK
2oOo tee or until he ha8 Il supply OF
frv ing water
Narauo Leyba, a desperate charlc
ter who WAS sentenced To seven years
Imprisonment for taking a hand iu the
murder of one Potter. aud whom Gov
crnor Ross par'oned out last fall. was
shot and killed 10y sherif's posse ncdl
Crrrl.os last week.
A fish story from the Republican:
sam Armstrong WAS fishing in bis lake
last Wednesday with small hook and
line. lie caugh, small fish and im-
mediately after a large cat fish swal-
lov el the frat one. Both were landed
and the cat fish weighed seyenty.four
pounds.
Las Cruces Dpmocrat: The redis
trictirg of the territory makes some
slight changes In the time of holding
courts. In Duna Ana 1t will com
m nee on the second Monday in April
ana October: in Sierra on the second
Mondayin March and September, ana
in Grant on the third Monday in MAY
and November.
/ Mrs. l.. NJ. Hampton. who is now in
Ieadville.ha written to friends In this
city the sad intelligence of the death of
Mr. Lnmrtou's father, which occurred
shortly after the receipt of the news
that his son Lewis had passed away.
The shock caused by the information
was so great that he WIS prostraIed
and that night was taken with severe
chill which developed into pnpumoniA
tile same disease that caused his sons
death-aud the ninth day he died. Il
was his SEVENTEEN birthday.-Rlo
Grande Republican,
There is going to be n good deal o:
litigation in the near future, in the
Kingston camp over he apex law. The
question will be. are the mines there
dssUres, or deposits of ore? If the is.
sure theory is correct. then the owners
of claims on the apex or where the out
cropping are visible on the surfcce.
have the right under the United States
statute follow the dip Of the vein ialo
other claims. II the deposit theory lie
correct the miners can only operate
their mines TO the boundary lines of